Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.
What everyone in the world is obsessed with, God makes a distant second. He’ll give you what you need to live on if you need Him in order to live.
Seeing With New Eyes, P&R Publishers, 2003, p.119. Get this book!
In a strange way, God’s good and perfect gifts (Jas. 1:17) abundantly lavished on our lives have not created a greater heart for the Giver, but rather have given us a greater love for lesser gifts.
Sermon, The Model Prayer-Part Three, Matthew 6:11-15, Sunday, July 27, 2008.
God’s heart, not mine, is the measure of His giving; not my capacity to receive, but His capacity to give.
When we deal seriously with our sin, God will deal gently with us.
Treasury of David, Psalm 51.
The truth is that the God of the Bible is the kind of God whose greatest delight comes not from making demands but from meeting needs.
Copied from: Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Knowing God by Sam Storms, © 2000, p. 60. Used by permission of NavPress – www.navpress.org. All rights reserved. Get this book!
